Smoking process



Sept. 27, 1932. BEKER 1,879,032

SMOKING PROCESS Filed Jan. 11. 1930 Patented Sept. 27, 1932 PATENT- OFFICE HEINZ BECKER, OF HAMBURG, GERMANY SMOKING PROCESS App1ication filed January 11, 1930, Serial No. 420,252, and in Germany March 9, 192 9.

\Vhen smoking sausages the sausages as is known are hung in pairs on smoking bars which then are suspended in the smoking chamber. Smoking trucks are known. in

5 medium sized works which are pushed into the smoking chambers, and in large works smoking towers or chambers with travelling arrangement for continual feed.

In the arrangement hitherto known the articles to be smoked hang stationary on the hooks (Fig. 1). This isopen to the following objection. The bearing surfaces of the sausages on the circular smoking hooks are not smoked. The moist sausages stick together when suspended or at the movement of the smoking hooks. It has been endeavoured to overcomethis objection by using hooks with triangular gaps. However the contact surfaces still remain unsmoked at the edges and at the top.

These unsmoked contact surfaces of the sausages account chiefly for the fact that specially preserved sausages easily go bad in summer. Consequently the whole contents of the tin becomes unfit for eating. a

. This invention has for its object to entirely overcome the disadvantage above mentioned. The sausages are suspended on smokinghooks of known shape which are inserted on a tipping device constructed for this purpose in a smoking chamber or a smoking truck or in a chamber with travelling feeding device. During the smoking operation the smoking hooks are tipped slowly either continually or periodically from one side to the other. By

this means the sausages are uniformly preserved on all sides. The tipping device is mechanically actuated during the smoking operation. In the case of small works they may be actuated by hand or foot drive.

. An embodiment of the invention is illustrated by way of example inthe accompanying drawing in which Fig. 1 shows the two tipping positions of the smoking bar.

Fig. 2 shows two stories of a smoking truck. Fig. 3 shows in perspective view a bar suspended on a hook carrier. i

able means so that it assumes alternately the two positions shown in Fig. 1. By this means the portion b of the sausage b will first be smoked and then the portion 0 ofthe sausage 0.

I Any suitable arrangement may be provided for effecting the tipping movement. For example an endless chain'may be used or the arrangement shown .in Fig. 2 in which two stories are shown in side elevation. The connecting or operating rod d is hinged to the stationary pin (1, and oscillated in the direction of the arrow. By this means the lever e which is hinged on the pin 6 is moved. During its movement the lever e actuates the connecting bar 9 pivotally mounted on a pin f on the lever e and turns the smoking hook carrier 72, into the desired direction.

The connecting or operating rod d can be actuatedfrom either side of the truck.

I claim: I

A process for smoking sausages,- consisting in suspending the sausage in pairs on smoking bars so that one sausage of each pair hangs freely on each side of the bar, and in imparting an oscillating'movement to said bars causing the sausages to swing, whereby portions of the sausages bearing against the support are intermittently exposed to the action of the smoking gases, wherefrom results that all parts of the sausages are smoked at the same time.

In testimony whereof I aflix my slgnature.

HEINZ BECKER.

A smoking bar'a, which may for example be of T-shaped cross section, is tipped by suit- 

